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Patrick John Adamiak
Department of History
Patrick John Adamiak is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego working on my dissertation, entitled “To the Edge of the Desert: Settlement, Civilization, and Caucasian Refugees in the late Ottoman Empire (1878-1918).” His study analyzes the settlement of refugees at the desert fringe of the empire in Southern Syria, Eastern Libya, and Upper Mesopotamia. Historians have typically overlooked the significance of the settlements because these areas ended up in different nation-states after World War I. In particular, they have neglected the settlements as part of a trans-regional imperial project to extend sedentary life into semi-arid zones at the expense of pastoral populations. With the support of the Institute of Turkish Studies, he will be able to focus solely on completing my dissertation. He was supported with the following grant: • Dissertation Writing Grant, 2016-2017
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